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Place
  
Woking

Station code
  
WOK

2011/12
  
7.358 million

Address
  
Woking, United Kingdom

Managed by
  
South West Trains

Local authority
  
Borough of Woking

Grid reference
  
TQ006587

DfT category
  
B

2012/13
  
7.463 million

Opened
  
1838

Number of platforms
  
6

Post-grouping
  
Southern Railway

Woking railway station

Similar
  
Guildford (Surrey) railway st, Clapham Junction railway st, London Waterloo station, Basingstoke railway station, Farnborough (Main) railway st

Woking railway station is a major stop in Woking, England, on the South Western Main Line used by many commuters. Woking station is served by a number of rail services including:

Contents

  • the Alton Line calling at stations to Alton
  • the Portsmouth Direct Line to Guildford and stations to Portsmouth
  • the South Western Main Line to Winchester, Southampton, Bournemouth, Poole and Weymouth
  • the West of England Main Line to Andover, Salisbury and Exeter
  • Woking station also is the southern terminus for the Waterloo to Woking stopping service

    • Fast trains from Woking take approximately 26 minutes to reach Waterloo (some stop at Clapham Junction). Trains from the Alton Line take roughly 35 minutes, and the stopping service 50 minutes, to Waterloo.

    A twice-hourly RailAir bus service runs between the terminus beside the station and Heathrow Airport, a journey of about 50 minutes.

    History

    The London and Southampton Railway (L&SR) was authorised on 25 July 1834. It was built and opened in stages, and the first section, that between the London terminus at Nine Elms and Woking Common was opened on 21 May 1838. Woking Common became a through station with the opening of the next section of the line, as far as Winchfield, on 24 September that year. On 4 June 1839, the L&SR was renamed the London and South Western Railway (LSWR), and Woking Common station assumed its current name of Woking around 1843.

    Woking became a junction with the opening of the Guildford Junction Railway (GJR) on 5 May 1845; it had been authorised less than a year earlier, on 10 May 1844. The GJR was always operated by the LSWR, and was absorbed by that company on 4 August 1845.

    Platforms

    Woking Station has six platforms.

  • Platform 1 - Semi-fast London Trains. Situated on the north side of the station.
  • Platform 2 - Fast London services.
  • Platform 3 - Stopping service to/from London. Situated at the easternmost end of platforms 2/4.
  • Platform 4 - Fast trains to Basingstoke, Southampton, Weymouth, Salisbury and Exeter.
  • Platform 5 - Portsmouth line, Alton line, Basingstoke stopping.
  • Platform 6 - a south facing bay platform, the first train of the day to Portsmouth Harbour via Eastleigh starts from this platform, and it is often used to stable diesel locomotives in the event of a train failure.

    • Services

  • 14tph to London Waterloo
  • 4tph on the Portsmouth Direct Line, of which
  • 2tph to Portsmouth Harbour (fast)
  • 1tph to Portsmouth and Southsea (stopping at all stations)
  • 1tph to Haslemere
  • 6tph on the South Western Main Line, of which
  • 2tph to Basingstoke
  • 2tph to Alton
  • 1tph to Portsmouth Harbour via Basingstoke
  • 1tph to Weymouth
  • 2tph on the West of England Main Line to Salisbury, of which:
  • 1tph continues to Exeter St Davids
  • The Station was destroyed in H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds.
  • Woking Station can be seen throughout the 1995 music video for 'You Do Something To Me' by Paul Weller.

    • References

    Woking railway station Wikipedia
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